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Main description:
The mouse was first used in immunological research by Paul Ehrlich in 1891 in an extraordinary series of experiments on the maternal transfer of antitoxic immunity. A short 22 years later in 1913 Halsey Bagg acquired a stock of albino mice from a commercial dealer and used them in a series of experiments on learning. Because he was interested in the genetics of intelligence, Halsey Bagg began breeding a pedigreed line of these mice that were subsequently named for him - Bagg Albino. Though Halsey Bagg is not credited with initiating the inbred strains of mice, his stock curiously has played an indisputably important role. Bagg Albinos were progenitors of the present day BALB/c family of sublines - the subject of this book. They were also used as one of the parents in the development of inbred strains A, CBA and C3H, three other very famous strains. Today the BALB/c mouse is among the five most widely used inbred strains in biomedical research and a particular favorite in immunology and infectious disease research. The hallmark of the BALB/c response to so many kinds of infections is susceptibility and sometimes an exaggerated susceptibility, but this paradoxically is not associated with immunodeficiency as BALB/c is an excellent responder to immuni zation. These characteristics have made the BALB/c mouse a model for identifying genes that determine susceptibility to infectious and neoplastic diseases. In 1985 the laboratory BALB/c mouse became 72 years old. The current filial generations are somewhere around 350 generations [MURPHY].
Contents:
History of the BALB/c Family.- Genetic Differences in BALB/c Sublines.- Some Unusual Genetic Characteristics of BALB/c and Evidence for Genetic Variation Among BALB/c Substrains.- Genetic Differences in BALB/c Sublines.- A Series of Recombinant Inbred Strains Between the BALB/cHeA and STS/A Mouse Strains.- Characteristics of thewm Substrain of BALB/c Mice.- Qa2 Expression in BALB/c Sublines and a BALB/cLAC Tumor.- Studies into theraf andRif Genes in the Mouse.- Genetic Analysis of Alphafetoprotein Levels in BALB/c Sublines.- The Origin and Meiotic Instability of a Polymorphic Repetitive Sequence PR1 Family.- Genetic Variation of Catecholamine Responsive Metabolic Pathways-A Hypothesis for a Common Regulatory Mechanism in BALB/c Sublines.- DNA Hybridization Subtraction: Differences Detected Between BALB/cAnPt and BALB/cJax at the DNA Level.- Differential Susceptibility of BALB/c Sublines to Diabetes Induction by Multi-Dose St.reptozotocin Treatment.- Genetically Contaminated BALB/c Nude Mice.- The Genetic Stability of Endogenous Type B and C Retroviruses in BALB/c Sublines.- Differences in Response to Infections.- Response of BALB/c Mice to Leishmanial Infection.- Immunoprophylaxis in BALB/c Mice: A Model for Development of Protection Against Primary and Secondary Infection withLeishmania major.- Genetic Control of SystemicLeishmania major Infection: Identification of Subline Differences for Susceptibility to Disease. With 3 Figures.- Role of T Cells in the Unusual Cutaneous Responses toLeishmania in BALB/c Mice.- Susceptibility of BALB/c Sublines to Infection withListeria Monocytogenes.- Genetic Control of the Macrophage Inflammatory Response Elicited in a Subcutaneous Site.- Interaction ofNocardia asteroides in BALB/c Mice: Modulation of Macrophage Function, Enzyme Activity and the Induction of Immunologically Specific T-Cell Bactericidal Activity.- The BALB/c Mouse as a Model to Study Orthopoxviruses.- Genetic Control of Multisystem Autoimmune Disease in Encephalomyocarditis Virus Infected BALB/cCUM and BALB/cBYJ Mice.- Susceptibility to Abel son or Moloney Murine Leukemia Viruses.- Immune Response Differences.- Immunological Tolerance in BALB/c Mice.- The Tol-1 Gene in BALB/c Mice.- Differential Susceptibility to Experimental Autoimmune Orchitis in BALB/c Substrains.- Variation in Responsiveness of BALB/c Sublines, and Congenie Mice to Phase ICoxiella burnetii Infection and Vaccination.- Isotype-Specific Interactions Between Regulatory T Cells and Secreted and Membrane-Bound Monoclonal Immunoglobulins.- Genetic Control of Immunoglobulin Isotype Restriction.- Plasmacytomagenesis and Response to Mineral Oils.- Pristane-Induced Arthritis in BALB/c Mice.- Response of the Peritoneal Mesothelium to the Mineral Oil, Pristane.- BALB/c Subline Differences in Susceptibility to Plasmacytoma Induction.- Differences in the Peritoneal Response to Pristane in BALB/cAnPt and BALB/cJ Mice.
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Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Publication date: December, 2011
Pages: 272
Weight: 475g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Immunology, Microbiology
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